California boy saves elderly man’s life after dangerous fall

ORANGEVALE, Calif. - Twelve-year-old Jet Massagli was doing wheelies on his bike Friday when a man walking on the corner suddenly got his attention.

"I saw an old man face-first, down in the concrete," Massagli said.

The 87-year-old man tripped on uneven concrete hit the ground with his face.

"It kind of scared me because I thought he was gonna pass out or something 'cause [blood] was running, dripping all over his clothes and all over the ground," he said. "I came over and said, 'Sir, are you OK?'"

Being on blood thinners, Chuck Martin knew he needed medical aid right away. So he gave Jet his home address and asked the Carnegie Middle School student to go alert his wife to what happened.

"I was trying to use the phone and it was bloody. It was all bloody, I couldn't see anything, I couldn't see it," Martin said. "So this was really helpful. Really so enormous because I could've bled out fairly quickly."

Massagli recognized the gravity of the situation and got down to business.

"I rode on my bike as fast as I could 'cause I was worried he was going to pass out," he said.

Once Jet broke the news to Martin's wife, Lizbeth, he hurried back and sat by Martin's side until help arrived.

Nothing was broken, but Martin's injuries required stitches and antibiotics for an infection.